Bear Sightings on the Rise: Here's Why
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The last show with David Cooper, where we utilize nonlinear reverse inverse backward thinking protocols. It sounds like this. Better stay inside because bear sightings are on the rise. If you've seen one, you're not alone. Many more people have, and we'll discuss why here with Dr. Cliff Redford, a veterinarian. It's vet life. That's the name of his podcast. It's vet talk or pet talk. We still haven't figured it out. Yeah, I get confused. Cliff, welcome in. Thank you. I think we have figured it out. I think that's the name of this segment.
Why are bear sightings on the rise?
Vet Talk or Pet Talk. Vet Talk or Pet Talk. You are a vet. We talk about animal issues. You are a pet. We talk about pet issues. Perfect. Sure. There is a article that I'm reading that academics wrote, provided by Northwestern University in the U.S., about bear sightings. Yeah, there's a lot. And we're talking about the animals here. We're talking about the black bears and brown bears and whatnot. It's a real 90s joke right there. There you go. I didn't mean in the gayborhood. I meant the animal. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Though, I mean, wild bears are also welcome in the gay neighborhood. Well, are they? They're not really welcome anywhere. And that's the problem is we're having interactions, a lot more interactions all around the world.
with bears and people. So this article started out telling a little story, as any good article does, to catch people's interest. And it told the story of this woman, Kim Ring, who moved into this beautiful dream home in rural Massachusetts in 2022. She had a chicken coop. She's trying to live sort of off the grid. And then she came out one day and her chicken coop was flattened, in her words, and there were feathers everywhere. It was a chicken carnage scene. And she did some searching around with her kids, which, you know, could have ended up pretty bad. And she ended up finding a mama bear and two cubs up a tree. Mama bears, whenever they're in the media, always seem to have two cubs. It's always the case.
And yes, Mama Bear was chowing down on one of her chickens. Was it a chicken coop or was it a bear buffet?
What story illustrates the impact of bear encounters?
Is there a difference? There isn't in Massachusetts. Good, good comment there, David. That's the whole point. So in the last five years in North America, bear encounters with people have something like, it's not doubled, it's not quadrupled. What is it when it's three times? Thrupled? Tripled? Tripled. Tripled. That's the one. Tripled. Yeah, that's the one. Also welcome in any neighborhood, a little throuple every once in a while. So it's tripled and they're starting to say, you know, they're starting to ask why. In Japan, in 2025, they had a record 235 attacks. From bears on people, 13 people killed. It was so bad that the U.S. Embassy in Japan issued a travel alert to travelers coming from the U.S. about bear encounters, like on the official embassy website.
That's how bad it got. There's a lot of people that travel to disaster zones and war zones and they sort of vacation. What's that called? I don't know, like extreme vacationing? Something like that. Tripled? Is it called tripled? Yeah, it's not called tripled. I wonder if when people hear about, hey, there's a travel warning to Japan because of bear attacks, if some of these people are like, sweet, let's go see what's going on with the bears. But they basically said, why is this happening? And the reality is, is the bear population, especially in North America, has exploded. In Massachusetts alone, 50 years ago, there were only 100 bears. Now there's 4,500. Is it because people used to hunt them and kill them and now they're a little more protected?
And now they don't. Yeah, they're quite protected and there's quite a lot of bear hunts that have been cancelled over the years. So I think that is a big part. They didn't talk about that in the article because unfortunately it's not, it kind of gets people upset. And I mean, I'm a veterinarian, sort of, I'm pretty sure. And I like animals, definitely. But I don't... not support that's too negative i i still support and understand hunting especially for animals that are not obviously for animals that are not endangered and if done correctly hunting does control the animal population following state provincial guidelines permits making sure the numbers don't get culled too much like that fine what i mean i wouldn't do it personally i'm not going to murder an animal but the fact that hunters go out and do fine i can go to bed at night
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